How to Use degradation in a Sentence

degradation

noun

• English teachers bemoaning the degradation of the language that e-mail and instant messaging have allegedly brought about.
• Delta 8 is produced in the cannabis plant through the degradation of delta 9.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• These three factors will work together to slow down the degradation of the food.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the predawn chill, the laborer curses his degradation; in the twilight, the bodies of Israelis are given to the earth.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Are the West’s wild horses getting the blame for range degradation caused by livestock?
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
• For at least two decades, that habitat work has been used to justify degradation from the many dams on the river.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• This Ocean Decade calls for a worldwide effort to reverse the oceans’ degradation.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
• When this occurs, nutrients from the blood are unable to reach the eye due to the degradation of the blood vessels and the retinal membrane.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• This will prevent the slow chemical degradation of the fuel in the mower over the winter.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• Writings from the past reveal so much to us—about ourselves as much as about the people of the past, about our progress as well as our degradation.
  — WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• This way, all the drug gets circulated throughout the body and avoids degradation in the stomach.
  — Tom Anchordoquy, The Conversation, 17 June 2022
• Yet for years, Selig aided and abetted the A’s blundering in search of a new ballpark, and the degradation of the A’s franchise to its current state.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Land degradation or drought affect 169 countries, with Asia and Africa the hardest-hit.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• The goal is for the Ioniq to be able to complete two laps with little performance degradation.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
• We are then left with a tradeoff of public safety and quality of life and a degradation of our way of life.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
• This degradation was top of mind at this year’s conference.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• According to studies, the rate of degradation depends on the surface area of the product.
  — Alex Zhang, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Backers cite changing climate, the loss of animal species and the degradation of the hillsides.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• What, if anything, can customers do to slow or stop degradation ahead of the microcode update?
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 26 July 2024
• The project will allow the degradation to happen and turn the area behind it into floodplain forest, Miller said.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2024
• At least 30 of the complaints described foam degradation, but the FDA said the reports did not indicate that any patients had been harmed.
  — Haajrah Gilani, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Castroneves ran in the top-half of the field Saturday but struggled late with tire degradation and drifted back to 16th.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2022
• The idiom of Formula 1 is a Ph.D.-level patter of ride heights, tire-degradation curves, strat modes, and gurney flaps.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
• All of this is part of a reinforcing cycle of land degradation and climate change that the Coeur d’Alene Tribe has been fighting for decades.
  — Joseph Lee, Vox, 14 Oct. 2024
• But to work as a vaccine or a medicine, the fragile molecules would need to be shielded in the bloodstream to prevent degradation on their way to cells.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2022
• Tuvalu has not yet reached the end of this process of salination, destruction, degradation, and demise.
  — Kausea Natano, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
• This minimizes the effect of any impact, although not all of the degradation can be cancelled out this way.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 June 2022
• This led to the loss of willow, cottonwood and aspen trees, streambank erosion, and the overall degradation of the ecosystem.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
• Coral reefs around the world are in big trouble because of warming oceans, habitat degradation, pollution, and diseases.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
• Much of the damage from fires is classified as degradation, not clearcutting deforestation, as the fire in the Amazon rainforest spreads mostly through leaves on the ground, and not through treetops.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024